In invading Iraq Bush carried out binLaden’s plans so perfectly you’d think alQaeda had taken over the Department of Defense. Now alQaeda’s latest number two guy, Ayman alZawahiri, is repeating Republican talking points. Brian Ross at ABC News:

In a new video posted today on the Internet, al Qaeda’s number two man, Ayman al Zawahiri, mocks the bill passed by Congress setting a timetable for the pullout of U.S. troops in Iraq.

“This bill will deprive us of the opportunity to destroy the American forces which we have caught in a historic trap,” Zawahiri says in answer to a question posed to him [by] an interviewer.

Continuing in the same tone, Zawahiri says, “We ask Allah that they only get out of it after losing 200,000 to 300,000 killed, in order that we give the spillers of blood in Washington and Europe an unforgettable lesson.”

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